Print Resources

  • Alexander, Jeb. Jeb and Dash: A Diary of Gay Life, 1918 – 1945. Edited by Ina Russell. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1993.
  • Allen, Louise Anderson. A Bluestocking in Charleston: The Life and Career of Laura Bragg. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001.
  • Ball, Edward. Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004.
  • Bellows, Barbara. A Talent for Living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston Literary Tradition. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
  • Bennett, Murray. Invisible Pursuit. New York: Ram Press, 1961.
  • Blake, James. The Joint. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1971.
  • Burns, Edward, The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten. Vol. 1: 1913 – 1935. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
  • Duberman, Martin. “’Writhing Bedfellows’: 1826. Two Young Men from Antebellum South Carolina’s Ruling Elite Share ‘Extravagant Delight’”, in Journal of Homosexuality, 1980 – 1981. Volume 6, nos. 1-2, pp 85-101. This essay and the primary materials upon which it is based have appeared in a variety of different anthologies.
  • Greene, Harlan. “The Charmer Behind the Cobra”, in King Cobra: Mekong Adventures in French Indochina by Harry Hervey. Edited by Kent Davis with a foreword by Pico Iyer. Holmes Beach, FL: DatAsia Press, 2013, 287- 308.
  • —- . Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001.
  • —-. “Through a Woman’s Eyes: Congaies, Heroines and Harry Hervey”, in Congai: Mistress of Indochine by Harry Hervey. Edited by Kent Davis with a foreword by Pico Iyer. Holmes Beach, FL: DatAsia Press, 2014, pp 230- 247.
  • —-. Why We Never Danced the Charleston, Charleston, SC: History Press, 2005. This reprints the 1984 edition, with an afterword with more information on Ned Jennings.
  • Grinker, Roy Richard. In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
  • Hetzler, Sidney, N., Jr. “Two Town Festivals: Signs of a Theater of Power”. Unpublished dissertation, Emory University, 1990.
  • Hippler, Mike. Matlovich: The Good Soldier. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1989
  • Jones, Mark R. Wicked Charleston. Volume II: Prostitutes, Politics and Prohibition. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2006.
  • Katz, Jonathan Ned. Gay American History. New York: Crowell, 1976.
  • Rose, Ingrid and Roderick B. Quiroz. The Lithographs of Prentiss Taylor: A Catalogue Raisonne. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 1996.
  • Sears, James T. Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948 – 1968. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
  • Simmons, Dawn Langley. All for Love. London: Star Books, 1975.
  • —-. Dawn: A Charleston Legend. Charleston, SC: Wyrick, 1995.
  • —-. Man into Woman: A Transsexual Autobiography. New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1970.
  • Thompson, Santi. “‘Offending Decent People:’ Murder, Masculinity and the (Homosexual) Menace in Cold War Era Charleston”. Unpublished thesis, University of South Carolina, 2008.
  • Zeigler, John. Edwin and John: A Personal History of the American South. New York: Routledge, 2009.
  • —-. The Edwin Poems. Xlibris Corp, 2007.

Manuscript Collections

  • Harrison Randolph Papers, Special Collections, Addlestone Library, College of Charleston
  • Joseph A. Towels Papers, Avery Research Center, College of Charleston